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Love's Unending Legacy

2007 · 84 min

A gentle, faith-filled frontier drama that offers comfort and quiet emotional warmth, with a slow, reassuring rhythm.

Directed by: Mark Griffiths
Genres: Drama, Romance, Western
Starring: Erin Cottrell, Holliston Coleman, Victor Browne

Overview: Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right into, but Missie has lost all faith in herself, until a chance encounter at her father's church where she adopts homeless orphan Belinda Marshall.

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Directed by: Mark Griffiths
Genres: Drama, Romance, Western
Starring: Erin Cottrell, Holliston Coleman, Victor Browne

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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
faith
grief
found family
healing
Places: small town
countryside
home
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	2
Emotional weight	6

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Love's Enduring PromiseMovie · 2004
Love's Long JourneyMovie · 2005
Love's Abiding JoyMovie · 2006
Love's Unending LegacyMovie · 2007 This title
Love Finds A HomeMovie · 2009
Love Takes WingMovie · 2009
Love BeginsMovie · 2011
Love's Christmas JourneyMovie · 2011
Love's Everlasting CourageMovie · 2011

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Genres: drama, romance, western, family, tv movie
Directed by: Mark Griffiths
Written by: Pamela Wallace
Starring: Erin Cottrell, Holliston Coleman, Victor Browne, Hank Stratton, Braeden Lemasters, Dave Florek, Stephanie Nash, Bret Loehr
Music: Kevin Kiner
Cinematography: Brian Shanley
Runtime: 84 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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